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Famous American Industrialist's Antique Letter Opener (120052)

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Famous American Industrialist's Antique Letter Opener  (120052)
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This item SOLD at 2020 Jun 25 @ 13:37UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Antique brass letter opener from J. B. Food Co. Wyandotte, Mich. Reverse is embossed with American Indian with feathered head dress shooting bow and arrow. 8.75" long. Captain John Baptiste Ford was a famous American industrialist. The J. B. Ford Company was his final business venture in life and manufactured detergent and other products. The J.B. Ford Company was part of the Michigan Alkali Company, later renamed Wyandotte Chemical Company, a chemical company that supplied soda ash for glass production and became one of the country's leading chemical firms by 1901. J.B. Ford is best known for founding Pittsburg Plate Glass Company (PPG), but his success in industry spans from glass works to iron mills to commercial product manufacturing to Civil War steamboats used by Union soldiers, to chemical plants and beyond. He is the namesake of many major manufacturing companies still operating today, as well as place names stretching from Michigan across Ohio to New York and finally stopping at Ford City, Pennsylvania. This is a rare collectible of memorializing an icon in the history of American Industry.

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Date: c1890